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1. Linyphia (Leucauge) argyrohapta. Brownish yellow with the 

 chelicera darker : abdomen silvery, with 5 brownish-black longitudi- 

 nal lines meeting at the extremity, which is of the same colour as the 

 lines, with 2 distinct silvery lines. [The generic characters given with 

 each species I omit]. Mr. Darwin captured it near Rio Janeiro. (An- 

 nals, vii. 473). 



2. Linyphia? leucosternon. Body and sternum shagreened : above 

 greyish wliite, beneath greyish black spotted with white : cephalo- 

 thorax yellowish, with a paler posterior margm : legs yellowish, with 

 darker joints : chelicera port-wine colour : eyes black. Mr. Darwin 

 captured it near Rio. (Id. vii. 474). 



3. Epeira (Singa) leucogramma. Greyish brown, darker on the 

 sides, and having 3 longitudinal black-margined white lines above, the 

 middle one being interrupted, and two abbreviated black-margined 

 white lines below : legs greyish brown ringed with black : cephalo- 

 thorax ferruginous. Captured by Mr. Darwin near Rio. (Id. vii. 474). 



4. Tetragnatha hicolor. Shagreened and griseous above, with 3 or 

 4 indistinct brownish lines, sides lighter, beneath darker : legs and ce- 

 phalothorax brownish yellow. Captm'ed in Van Dieman's Land by 

 Mr. Gunn. (Id. vii. 475). 



5. Eripus heterogaster, Walckenaer. Thomisus heterogaster, Latr. 

 Guerin, Icon. Arachn. pi. 1. fig. 4. 



6. Salticiis (HomalottnsJ piistulatus. Upper side black, with 

 greenish reflections, covered with papilla3. Taken by the Rev. D. F. 

 Morgan at Sierra Leone. (Id. vii. 476). 



7. Pholcus geniculatus. Upper side of the body yellowish with 12 

 black-brown spots, 8 of which are arranged in pairs and decrease in 

 size towards the extremity, under side blackish brown : legs reddish 

 yellow, the first joints ringed with black and yellow, the last pale. 

 Taken near Rio by Mr. Darwin. (Id. vii. 477). 



These seven species are in the cabinet of the British Museum. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XXXVII. Analytical Notice of the ' Transactions of the Linne- 

 an Society of London^ vol. xviii. pt. 4, published August ^ 1841. 



Aet. XXXIX. — On a Gall gathered in Cuba, by W. S. MacLeay, Esq., 

 upon the leaf of a plant belonging to the order Ochnaceos. By The 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



After commenting on various striking resemblances between 



